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Toronto’s main stock index continued to push higher Thursday as Wall Street veered lower on heightened interest rate expectations from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 65.32 points to 15,454.92, with rising energy and financials shares among the key gainers. Following Wednesday’s announcement that the Fed remains on course to raise rates […]

TORONTO — North American stock markets climbed Tuesday, with Toronto’s main index surging more than 100 points and Wall Street hitting record highs, as the loonie weakened against the greenback. The S&P/TSX composite index advanced 103.11 points to 15,143.41, led by broad-based gains in most sectors including energy and gold. In New York, the Dow […]

TORONTO — The loonie closed above US82 cents Thursday, building on the upward push it got yesterday when it reached its highest level in more than two years following the Bank of Canada’s rate hike. The Canadian dollar was trading at an average price of US82.32 cents Thursday, up 0.78 of a U.S. cent. That […]

Bucking a national trend that saw Canada shed 46,000 jobs in December, Windsor's unemployment rate fell to 7.8 per cent thanks largely to an increase in retail and wholesale jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday.

Douglas Porter, chief economists BMO Capital Markets, talks on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at the Ciociaro Club in Tecumseh, Ont., about the Canadian dollar, where it is now, and likely will be in the future.

Canada’s economy could be in trouble if universities don’t start churning out more graduates from all fields of study, including the arts and humanities, says the Association of Universities and Colleges Canada. “If we think our economy is going to be healthy going forward without a well-educated population, we’re kidding ourselves.

Exempting Canadians who make same-day shopping trips to the U.S. from paying duties on their first $200 in purchases will push down prices on this side of the border and help consumers take advantage of the strong loonie, says a University of Toronto expert.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- About 30 Windsorites, perhaps a few former autoworkers among them, will soon be jetting off to Vietnam, courtesy of their Korean employer, for intensive training on building windmills.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- A new $5 million, five-year internship program called Connect Canada that aims to place 750 graduate students at companies across Canada was launched with considerable fanfare in Windsor Wednesday morning at an event attended by Chrysler Canada President and CEO Reid Bigland and University of Windsor President Alan Wildeman.

WINDSOR, Ont. -- We’re #2. We’re #2.
After more than two years as the unemployment capital of Canada, jobs have returned to the area in such numbers that Windsor has fallen to second place behind the region of Abbotsford-Mission, B.C.

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BOSTON — Josh Donaldson homered and drove in three runs, powering the Toronto Blue Jays past the AL East-leading Boston Red Sox 6-4 on Monday night. Boston’s six-game winning streak was snapped and its magic number to clinch a second straight division title remained at three. The Red Sox lead the second-place New York Yankees, […]

The Windsor Star publishes, at no charge, 50th, 55th, 60th, 65th and 70th wedding anniversaries and birthdays for those 90, 95, 100 and older. These announcements are published online and in print on Saturdays. Submissions are accepted by email only. Send a current, high quality photo (as a jpg attachment) to news@windsorstar.com at least one month prior […]

Compact discs were replacing records when Jeff and Mark Bass took a chance on a young white rapper named Marshall Mathers. Eminem, as he’s known, blossomed into one of the world’s most popular musicians. Now the brothers, who still own part of Eminem’s catalogue, want to cash in. They’ve agreed to sell up to 25 […]

TORONTO — When the Rick Mercer Report returns to CBC Tuesday night, the opening headline will be “Final Season.” The Canadian comedian has decided to end the show in March after 15 seasons and 277 episodes. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Mercer said there was no “seismic event or epiphany that this should […]